Actually I checked my dog asset and he's a rectangular bounding box for every animation.

Glenn

Recent screens showing my new assets...

[quote:3kdcf587]Are you using the platform behavior or a control derived from the physics plugin?

I'm using the platform behavior. It could be my player's polygon though it's pretty much a rectangle all of the time. I might try to swap the dog out for a single rectangle and see how that goes for a while. Thanks for the suggestion.

[quote:3kdcf587]I'm surprised you chose C2 given your expertise & it's lack of advanced animation tools

Ha! I have no expertise in game dev at all. I'm a film and animation guy. http://glennmelenhorst.com/website/

Thanks for the encouragement peeps. I will find some time to dig into it.

Thanks all!

I have built more levels and re-built almost all of the graphics leaning more heavily on 3D modelling as a basis.

BUT

I am disheartened as every so often my character simply falls through a floor. That's something I can't fix of even pin to a specific issue and it's a real disincentive to keep working on the game.

Needless to say I haven't touched it in over a month. Not sure what to do next.

Glenn

I have a question I need help with.

How do I use the same tilemap image for multiple levels? I want to saver file size and don't want a new 512X512 map in memory for each level if it's the same image?

Thanks for any enlightenment,

Glenn

So cool. And replied so quickly. Thank-you so much for the help LittleStain!

Glenn

Here is a small section of my game that is the first real trouble I've had while creating the thing.

http://www.glennmelenhorst.com/misc/dog/trapdoor_trouble.capx

The trapdoors are picked by a variable to match the switch, but the three trapdoors behave differently, working, only opening and not closing, or not at all.

Curiously, if I move them all up to the same spot, they work as needed.

I'd love a clue from some smart person out there as to what I am doing wrong.

Glenn

WIP 03!

Still going strong but it's a long road to travel by yourself. The fifth level on this WIP is just my "mucking about" level where I build and test the traps and items.

Glenn

"I don't know why but it reminds me Abe oddworld "

Ha, I had a guy at work say the same thing. Maybe oddworld would have been better if Abe had a dog

Updated the first post with screens of my progress.

yeah, thanks!

Here is an update. My dog switches from platformer to 8 direction. as well as a random enemy spawner at work. LOTS of changes happening and the GUI is under way. Slow as I'm doing it by myself.

"This game reminds me of Sleepwalker for the Amiga CD32."

Eek. I hadn't seen that. Well, I guess in Sleepwalker the dog is pushing the kid around which I don't do in mine. I don't want to watch too much of that in case I get influenced by it.

Still working on the levels. Plugged in a level selector and GUI. The menus and buttons are quite a bit of work

Glenn